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World AIDS Day:
Dec 1, 2022
Words and Images of Provincetown Memorial
Steve’s
holding Jerry, though he’s already gone,
Marie holding John, gone, Maggie holding
her John, gone, Carlos and Darren
holding another Michael, gone
and I’m holding Wally, who’s going.
“Atlantis” Mark Doty
Transcendence might be the term Emerson would lend it.
What I’m trying to say is that it wasn’t lonely.
“R.I.P. My Love” Tory Dent
Look: I am building absence
out of this room’s air
“Drawing from Life” Reginald Shepherd
We are all made of
